SLIDE 1 Exploring Ways to Move Past Implicit Bias
Erik J. Girvan, J.D., Ph.D. University of Oregon School of Law
SLIDE 2
- 1. I see stimuli, issues, and events as they are in
- bjective reality.
- 2. Other rational social perceivers generally share my
judgments and reactions – provided that they have had access to the same information that I do.
- 3. If someone does not share my judgments and
reactions:
- A. They have different (less) knowledge or information
than me
solution = share or pool information
agreement
B.
They are biased, duplicitous, stupid, etc.
Solution = delegitimize and disregard
Naïve Realism
SLIDE 3 Systematically discount the extent to which
disagreement with others is also attributable to our own biases or lack of knowledge.
Naïve Realism
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Short Cuts and Heuristics
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Quick Exercise
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Quick Exercise
SLIDE 7
Quick Exercise
SLIDE 8 Removing (irrelevant) features can de-bias
SLIDE 9
Quick Exercise
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Automatic Categorization and Association
SLIDE 11
Over-emphasize perceived similarities
within categories or groups and the differences between categories or groups
Categorization effects
SLIDE 12 Over-Emphasize Within-Group Similarities & Between-Group Differences
Winner of Random Pairings:
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Availability Heuristic
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Gun Deaths (fivethirtyeight.com)
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Terrorism, mass shootings, police
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Suicides
SLIDE 17 2016 Election
Air Force Times
SFGate
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2016 Election (NY Times, 2016) (1,000,000 = 1 square)
324 million people 1 million = 1 square
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2016 Election (1,000,000 = 1 square) (NY Times, 2016)
Primaries:
4% Trump 5% Clinton
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2016 Election
General Election:
63 million Trump 65 million Clinton
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Political Parties (Pew, 2018)
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Agree Approve Negotiation: 63% Agree Disapprove Negotiation: 15% 78% Agreement
Negotiate with North Korea?
SLIDE 23 21% 22% 21%+ 64% Agreement US Foreign Involvement?
Type equation here.
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25% 39% 17%+ 81% Agreement Is Russia Hostile?
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55% 22%+ 77% Agreement Opinions of Fed. Agencies
SLIDE 26 94% 76% 80% 71% 74% 93% 78% 81%
SLIDE 27 100% 90% 98% 74% 71% 70%
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Science
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Impacts?
SLIDE 30 Inequity in Job Applications
(Pager et al., 2009)
SLIDE 31 In 2015, controlling for estimates of rates
- f drug use, Black Oregonians were more
than 3.5 times more likely than White Oregonians to be convicted of felony drug use.
Oregon Criminal Justice Commission
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Gender disparities (NY Times, 2018)
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Police/Community Relations
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Solutions? Daryl Davis
SLIDE 35 Thank you!
Erik J. Girvan University of Oregon School of Law 1221 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1221 (541) 346-8934 ~ girvan@uoregon.edu